Netizens from Macau discovered that the largest forum in Macau, cyberctm, has activated keyword filtering mechanism and filtered away the term “Chief Executive” as well as its substitution “Chief Thief”.

The so called “Chief Executive” or C.E (in Chinese 特首）is the head of the Macau Special Administrative Region and the present C.E is Edmund Ho Hau Wah and its to be successor is Fernando Chui Sai On. In the past two year, Edmund Ho has been caught in a corruption scandal related with Ao Man Long and when the word “C.E / 特首）appear, it is very often associated with negative comments. Moreover, many netizens use the term “Chief Thief 賊首” to substitute “C.E”.